Fauci rubber stamps requests to spend tax payer money as the the person responsible for approval. Believes he's not responsible because there's too many requests to be approved if he does the actual work to verify them all.
Not his fault, we need to blame the people that asked him to sign off instead.
Oh, and he didn't say these words, so there's no way you can imply that's what he meant. It's a blatant attack on the science if you do so.